‘The Royale’ at 1st Stage bares a Black brother’s big heart
This play about a boxer packs so many emotional punches into its compact six rounds, you might not know what hit you. As fists...
Mosaic goes rom-com with ‘Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New...
This thoroughly delightful offering from Mosaic Theater Company has all the makings of a lighthearted rom-com. Boy picks up girl. He invites her to...
In the ‘Pipeline’ at Studio Theatre, a Black son’s legacy of...
The set for Dominique Morisseau's Pipeline at Studio Theatre could not be any whiter. Its white walls of freshly painted concrete blocks span the...
‘Sheltered’ at Theater J hits home in America right now
A gathering stormcloud looms over this exquisitely wrought play by Alix Sobler. "How bad is it going to get?" a character wonders aloud. No...
Top five theater ghosts…before ‘The Woman in Black’ arrived at Shakespeare...
The Woman in Black, the long-playing London ghost story now perturbing a Shakespeare Theatre Company stage, reminds us that spine-chilling horror can be the most...
Isabella Star LaBlanc, who plays Tiger Lily in ‘Peter Pan and...
When Playwright Lauren Gunderson took on the challenge of adapting J. M. Barrie's 1904 Peter Pan, she knew she had to fix what she...
At Mosaic’s ‘Eureka Day,’ a class in laughs and spats is...
The five adults seated onstage in a children's classroom each have a kid enrolled in this private day school, which like the play we're...
Love reigns in ‘Love in Hate Nation’ Two River Theater premiere
Love in Hate Nation is the new musical from Be More Chill’s composer/lyricist, Joe Iconis. Animated with a driving wheel of rock and funk...
5 reasons Christopher Boone liked ‘Curious Incident’ at Round House better...
My name is Christopher Boone and I am 15 and I am brave and I can do anything. I know that because I traveled...
UrbanArias delivers fun, deeply human evening of music and voices taking...
How prescient of the innovative UrbanArias. To be ahead of a major Washington Post Sunday Business section about a modern-day retail apocalypse: the dying...
The bad romance at the heart of Studio Theatre’s ‘White Pearl’
Anchuli Felicia King’s White Pearl is a hilarious, fast-paced satire set in the Singapore office of a cosmetics startup called Clearday that sells skin-whitening...
‘Blue Camp,’ an affecting play about men surviving enlistment in the...
Dispatch from the front. “Greetings: You are hereby ordered for induction in the Armed Forces of the United States.”
For those in the audience of...
On tour in DC with ‘What to Send Up When It...
Editor's note: Woolly Mammoth Theatre, in conjunction with its staging of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview, has brought to DC a show produced by the...
Mosaic’s brazenly brainy ‘Theory’ is both a treatise and a treat...
Academia has inspired several thematically penetrating plays featuring female protagonists—the two teachers falsely accused of being lesbian lovers, for instance, in Lillian Hellman's 1934...
Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Simon Godwin on conscience in ‘Everybody’ and himself
On the day after opening night of Everybody, the first show in Simon Godwin’s much-heralded first season as artistic director of Shakespeare Theatre Company,...
What’s magnificent and what’s muddled in ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ at...
Right to Be Forgotten is a play written from the outside in. By that I mean, its intention is to illustrate a legal issue:...
A theater buff auditions the GalaPro app (updated)
How does that new GalaPro app work? How well does it work? And what’s it like to watch a show with it? This inquiring...
Dangereuse: An interview with Nigel Rowe, a cabaret star as Ariel...
IN Series’ Stormy Weather, inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest, features the music of Billie Holiday and a stunning cabaret performance by Nigel Rowe as...
The power of subversive design in ‘Day of Absence’ at Theater...
To realize how much white America loved minstrelsy is a reckoning painful or shameful, depending on one's ancestry. Minstrel shows were never meant for...
Magic Time!: A #MeToo Memory Animates ‘I Am Her’
Midway through this taut, fraught drama about sexual trauma, a woman named Ana, a wife and young mother, is suddenly triggered. We are not...